9th Wonder

Released: September 27, 2011

Featuring: Rapsody Erykah Badu

Songwriter: Erykah Badu Rapsody 9th Wonder

Producer: 9th Wonder

[Verse 1: Rapsody]
Yo
Know I gotta be the bigger person
20 feet over walls, curtains
I stand tall to a half urbans
Julius magic, we made their Merlin
Got me up early, here this morning, urgent
Sick, asserting, a family, we birthed it
Turbid, wrap my head around it, Berlin
Walls, you look between our plans and all
Searching for answers whether big or small
Why you want a piece? Bounce, basketball
Have I become old news, analogue
In a digital world, so fashion fall
I love night flights, no gas and all
And til we crash, burn, awaiting call
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I'm over it, Off the Wall like Mike
Ya attitude's rude, that in all the fights
Tryna figure where you were, away from home last night
Rolodex into memories, recall your type
Once before I met around 2004
I told myself "dang, yo, never no more
I'm too tall, above average to ever fall short"
20 feet tall as balconies
The overstand walls, Rap, 9th and E
No lessons, we learn of the birds and bees

[Verse 2: Erykah Badu & (Rapsody)]
My love, what did I do
To make you fall, so far from me?
And now, I can't recall
The cause of the fall, selective memory
Then you, you built a wall
A 20 foot wall, so I couldn't see
But if I get off my knees
I might recall, I'm 20 feet tall
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)

[Hook: Erykah Badu & (Rapsody)]
Whoa! Hey, I'm 20 feet tall, mmm
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)
Whoa! Yeah, I'm 20 feet tall
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)

[Verse 3: Erykah Badu & (Rapsody)]
My love, what did I do
To make you fall, so far from me?
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)
And now, I can't recall
The cause of the fall, selective memory
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)
Then you, you built a wall
A 20 foot wall, so I couldn't see
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)
But if I get off my knees
I might recall I'm 20 feet tall
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)

[Hook: Erykah Badu & (Rapsody)]
Whoa! Hey, I'm 20 feet tall, mmm
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)
Yeah, oh Lord, I'm 20 feet tall
Whoa! Hey, I'm 20 feet tall, mmm
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)
Hey-yeah, yeah, I'm 20 feet tall, mmm
(I realise now I'm 20 feet tall
I realise now I'm 20 feet tall)

9th Wonder (real name Patrick Douthit) is a Grammy Award winning hip hop record producer, record label executive, lecturer and occasional rapper (under the pseudonym 9thmatic) from Durham, NC. He started off as 1/3 of the group Little Brother along with Phonte and Rapper Big Pooh and gained industry recognition producing songs for Jay Z, Destiny’s Child and Mary J Blige to name a few.

9th also founded and currently runs Jamla Records, a record label boasting the talents of rappers Rapsody, Add-2, GQ, HALO and Actual Proof along with the Soul Council production team, comprising Khrysis, Amp and Ka$h. He also lectures at both Duke and Harvard universities and is the subject of two documentaries – “The Wonder Year” and “The Hip Hop Fellow.”

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